Upper Moon One poor thing.. Have to live with such a brother... Life it’s hard and more hard in a primitive age as the Samurai..

Fucking precious

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I also remembered it just saying 'I was moved...'* or something along those lines. Nonetheless, we can all agree that anon has the most accurate translation now, as they always do. Thanks for informing me!

darn, I caught up

Wow he's such a douche towards his brother

@LotusLily Hmm, I very clearly remember the wording being present-tense when I posted before. I guess they corrected it since then.

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Anon didn't translate it as it had already happened. Read it again. Page 14.
He's narrating with a tone of resignation about what he expects to happen. Would and going. He's predicting.

In the end MangaPillar was the only wrong one. Lol.

The demon #1 only died because he could not accept his ugliness reflected back at him. He desired supreme skills, which is the reason he still fights with a sword after becoming a demon. When fighting against the young demon hunter, he realized that he didn't achieve supreme skills, but rather he ended up with monstrosity.

@Heap
No they haven't. They're not even close to the peak.
To defeat Koku it took Himejima, Sanemi, Genya and Muichiro, with the latter two sacrificing themselves, and ultimately Koku lost not to them but to himself after realizing the monster he had become in his efforts to become Yorichii and let himself die rather than keep living with the shame.
Meanwhile Yorichii as an old man who was about to drop dead in the next minute completely outclassed Koku and only didn't kill him because he himself died first out of old age.
Yorichii is still the GOAT and not a single one of the modern demon hunters has gotten even close to him.

@Heap, I think you might have the wrong guy here. The genius dude is already dead. He didn't even lose to the brother when he was all skin and bone. Heck, he was dead and still intimidating enough that the brother couldn't move.
Kids caught up to the demon-brother, and barely.

@Heap I would not say that the new kids are even close

i like how it's saying: yes he was born talented, but the new kids worked their butts off and reached the same peak

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Interesting. In the Chinese version, Kokushibou monologues that the subordinate has already reported to his father, and Yoriichi will take his place as the successor. He speaks of moving to the three-tatami room as something that will happen. I'd say MangaPlus is the most accurate in this instance.

@Hamin but Kibutsuji was a product of... witchcraft, or something. He was severly ill, and a doctor (or something among those lines. Maybe a medicine seller) turned him into that. We don't know If it was accidental or not because Muzan killed the dude before he could even ask.

I'm saying there is an actual reason for how things turned out in-universe. Muzan being a demon? Someone made him that way. Breaths? Hardcore training. Marks? Same thing, apparently.

But Yorichi doesn't have (so far) any explanation. He is that way just because, kinda. That's why is so jarring in comparison to everything seen so far that had an actual explanation that made sense in-universe (demons dont just exist, they are created from a source).

I do like the idea that there is some genetic factor of sorts. It would explain why everyone can learn any breath pretty much (I mean after you have the aptitude, there is no stopping you from learning a breath that suits you personally. There is no actual bloodline limiting you from learning a breath over another, as seen with Tanjiro and Kanao).

But yeah we are going to have to wait for a little longer. Hopefully It gets explained!

Interesting difference between the three releases: on page 15 (page 14 in the other releases), the MangaPillar translation words Kokushibou’s internal monologue in a way that implies his father making Yoriichi his successor is a fear of his—it’s worded in the future tense—but not something he’s actually heard about personally. In the Mangaplus translation, Kokushibou knows for a fact that their positions will be switched and Yoriichi will become the successor, although it hasn’t gone into effect yet from the perspective of the monologue. In the /a/nonymous translation, the succession has already been switched, and Kokushibou moved into the three-tatami room—although that directly contradicts the art, which shows him sleeping in a room much bigger than Yoriichi’s small one.

Which interpretation do you guys prefer? I like the Mangapillar one, personally, although the ambiguous wording in the Mangaplus release is probably the most accurate.

@unnaturalsolace thank you for keep translating this, I find your team's translation clearer and easier to understand than the other team's. Also thank you for uploading the coloured version of this 😄
I can't thank you enough.

simple concept but captivating nonetheless.

Also I got trolled by the title, I was expecting to read about genya lmao

In terms of lore, my understanding is as such: the same way a demon(kibitsuji) was produced by an anomaly, yorichi was an anomaly. But because yorichi is in essence a human it’s possible for other humans to do the same things he can. His techniques and ability is reproduced by those with enough talent but even those with talent would be hard pressed to maintain the anomaly. I’m okay with genetic anomalies if that’s what this is, cuz all it means is just like humans can turn into demons and become supernatural entities, mankind also always had the genetic potential to enter the see through world. After all, that’s how evolution and mutations happen. Perhaps his mother’s illness has something to do with it, hence the mark on his left eye because her sickness is on her left side. But we’ll have to wait if that gets exposition.

I consider it weak storytelling because it's taking a really cheap and contradicting way to explain something that has been hinted at (Yorichi as a character) a lot of chapters ago. It has some build up and the answer is less than impressive. I don't understand why you or anyone defend it at all because to me the idea alone that "he was pushing his limits ever since he was a fetus" is absurd. We do need an explanation of any kind (whether actual gods making him exist to create the breaths or some other convenient crap) so I hope Goutouge delivers in that front.

Also no my annoyance at bad writting is not nearly the same as the sheer envy and pure disgust Kokushibo felt nor the depressive anger Rengoku's dad left himself fall to. Please don't try to grasp at straws to just have an argument.

where is the meme? good works man, worth waiting for!

sorry u getting sniped man